When1: 1817
When2: 1822
Who: François Magendie [Magendie, François]
What: physiologist
Where: Paris, France
works\ Summary of Physiology [1817]
Detail: He lived 1783 to 1855, studied emetine and morphine drugs, and studied iodides and bromides in nutrition. He poisoned animals with Javanese arrow poison in various ways, described convulsions and asphyxia, sectioned spinal cord, and isolated strychnine [1818]. Spinal-nerve anterior and posterior roots have separate functions {Bell-Magendie law, Magendie}: dorsal root is sensory, and ventral root is motor [1822].
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